✎ CS Book Club ✐

[wayhaught]

i have got to try to use libby!! i'm living in the u.s. right now on foregin exchange so hopefully it will work for me lol

[Pyjaks]

Oh man I'm so obsessed with it. It has a really good selection and if you put a book on hold you get it pretty quickly. I've put tons of books on hold and even if they were estimated to take 6-8 weeks they usually come to me within 2-3.

[lunaballoona09]

So I just finished the fifth WoF book


I'm tramatized Clay WHY

[.Kira Nightblade.]

Has anybody read Heartless by Marissa Myers?

[OutlawQueen]

I have,.

[wayhaught]

hello everyone! i have ended the poll that has been running for the past few weeks! you all decided that we should do themed monthly discussions, so we will! this month i have decided to pick fantasy because it seems that is what the most of us have been talking about this week! what are your favorite fantasy books? is fantasy your favorite genre?

also: just because this is the theme doesn't mean you can only talk about this, but i would like the theme to guide our discussions for the next few weeks c:

lastly: i know someone sent me a book recommendation for this month but i can't find it! if that was you or you'd like to recommend a book using the form on the front page, please let me know!

[Magpie•]

I want to join the book club!
Username: Birdsforlife
Pronouns: She/her
Your favorite book and/or author: Wings of fire (Series) and Tui.T. Sutherland
Why is this your favorite?: Talking dragons!
What genres do you like? fantasy and fiction
Fun fact about you: I love birds
Anything else?: I LOVE READING

[wayhaught]

welcome Birdsforlife!

[OutlawQueen]

Has anyone read The Pillars of the earth and watched the TV show? If so, I'd really like to now what you though about how they changed the ending and integrated the politics in a more TV friendly manner. And did you like how they treated Alfred a bit differently, giving him some of William's least unlikable (but still deplorable) moments?

[Pyjaks]

Fantasy is my absolute faaaavorite genre and makes up probably 80% of what I read. I gravitate towards adult fantasy but enjoy a good YA fantasy as well. Right now I'm reading The Wicked King by Holly Black which is book 2 in a YA fantasy. Its pretty darn enjoyable, not my favorite thing on the earth but definitely scratching my itch for politics and steamy romance with an interesting fantasy backdrop.

My favorite fantasy series are Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson, The First Law by Joe Abercrombie, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, uhmmm thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I have so many anticipated fantasy releases for the rest of 2019 tho. The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White, A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young, The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang...I could go on. The end of 2019 is going to be so bad for my wallet lmao.

Right now I'm trying to work on reading less popular fantasy. I feel like I've torn my way through at least one book from most of the big authors in the game right now (or at the least I own a book by them). I want to explore newer and also more diverse authors, particularly women of color because lord knows they're underrepresented in SFF.

Though I do also want to tackle The Wheel of Time at some point before the TV show comes out. I tried to read it like...three or four times in the past and always gave up around page 200, in fact I think I got rid of my copy of the first book oops. But its been a few years and I want to give it another chance. I've been CRAVING a massive, epic, sweeping fantasy story that'll take me months and months to devour and since Stormlight won't be complete for yearssss I might as well try WOT.